Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
by
Suleiman Osman
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers...